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A malnourished child is treated on June 15, 2012 at a Doctors Without Borders clinic at the Jamam refugee camp, about 40 miles south of the border with Sudan. A World Health Organization analysis, released June 20, 2012, says 495 million women and children under age 5 are undernourished, and the problem will increase sharply in the future because of climate change and population growth.

Todd Jouda Matthews of the Sudan competes in the men''s 110 meter hurdels at the 2004 Olympic Games.

A demonstrator wears a mask at a rally for independence in Juba, Sudan. The event was aimed at building support for a referendum vote scheduled for Jan. 9 that will determine whether south Sudan formally secedes from the north.

A polling official in Juba, in southern Sudan, prepares name plates for candidates as ballot counting gets underway. The tally follows five days of polling during which voter-registration discrepancies caused confusion throughout the region.

A Sudanese refugee woman carrying a child waits to vote at a polling station in the refugee camp of Zamzam, on the outskirts of El Fasher, Darfur, Sudan.

A soldier provides security as voters cast their ballots at a polling station in Zam Zam camp for internally displaced persons in Darfur, Sudan. Sudan's election commission announced Monday it was extending voting by two more days, beyond the originally planned three-day national election, to ensure technical problems would not prevent anyone from participating.

Sudanese line up to vote at a polling station in Terekeka, Southern Sudan. It's the impoverished country's first multiparty, national elections in a quarter century. Three days of voting began Sunday.

Ruot Wiyual, 2, holds a cup of water on her hospital bed in Akobo in southern Sudan.

A recent survey found that almost 46% of children in the region are malnourished.

Rafik Saifi celebrates by climbing on top of the goal post after helping Algeria stun Egypyt 1-0 in their World Cup qualifying match in Khartoum, Sudan. The victory allowed Algeria to clinch its first World Cup berth in 24 years.

Nyarokni Kokwi mourns the death of her son, Marial Thijok, 28, from a stomach ailment at a health clinic run by the charity Doctors Without Borders near Nasir, southeastern Sudan, on Monday.

Nyadan Yien, 23, an ethnic Nuer, sits in a hospital bed at a health clinic run by the medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders) after receiving a gunshot wound that broke her leg during tribal clashes near the town of Nasir, southeastern Sudan. Tribal violence in southern Sudan has killed hundreds of people in recent months and at least 40 people in the past week. Attacks stemming from disputes over cattle have escalated in recent months in south Sudan between two rival ethnic groups in an area where livestock are prized by southern pastoralists and represent wealth, status and stability in fraught times.

Supporters of Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir sit on camels during the dedication of the Merowe Dam in northern Sudan. Bashir is wanted by the International Criminal Court for alleged war crimes in Darfur.

Rebels of the Sudan Liberation Army, loyal to leader Minni Minawi, ride in a pick-up truck in El-Fasher, the administrative capital of north Darfur. Sudan's Vice President Ali Osman Taha met today with Minnawi, a rebel leader turned presidential advisor, following accusations that Sudanese government troops had attacked the Darfur rebels last week, the only group to have signed a 2006 peace deal with the capital Khartoum.

Emergency personnel work at the scene of a cargo plane crash that killed four crewmembers in Khartoum, Sudan. The plane crashed shortly after takeoff and was the second plane crash in Sudan in a week and the third this month.

A rescue worker examines the wreckage of a Sudan Airways plane that burst into flames Tuesday night upon landing at Khartoum International Airport in Sudan. Thirty people were killed, 178 survived and six people remain unaccounted for, the airways said.

Women who fled fighting in eastern Chad gather as a delegation as the U.N. Security Council visits a camp for internally displaced people near Gos Beida. Refugees from conflict in Sudan's Darfur and Chad appealed to visiting U.N. Security Council envoys for more international protection so they can return to their homes.

A census official interviews homeless youths at a police station on the opening day of the 5th National Population and Housing Census in Khartoum, Sudan.

University of Connecticut students participate in a campus “die-in” against the genocide in Darfur, Sudan. The UConn Foundation recently sent letters to its fund managers asking them to divest the foundation’s money from companies connected to the war-plagued African country.

Sudanese teacher Abdullah Abdel Rahim gives a lesson to a class of students at a school in Abu Shouk refugee camp, north of the Darfur town of Al-Fasher, Sudan. The open air school has two teachers, 75 students and operates 7 days a week. With basic school materials, no infrastructure and surrounded by mud bricks, children of the refugee camp attend their classes under the sun from 7 a.m. till 3 p.m. daily.

A girl struggles against the wind in a sandstorm near a water point in the Darfur refugee camp of Abu Shouk in Sudan. Decades of drought helped trigger Darfur’s violence as rival groups fought over scarce water and arable land. Experts fear the war and its refugee crisis are making the environment even worse, leaving the land increasingly uninhabitable and intensifying tensions with no end to the drought in sight.

A soldier from the African Union Mission in the Sudan inspects a coffin prior to a funeral service for seven Nigerian peacekeepers and three military observers in El-Fasher, North Darfur. The 10 were killed when rebels attacked their base Saturday.

Ira Newble, who did not play in Game 4 against San Antonio, talks to Jamel Ngeth, one of 15 Darfur refugees brought to the U.S. by the Cavaliers swingman.
Newble has become an activist for Darfur, a region of Sudan where four years of warfare have left more than 200,000 dead and 2.5 million people displaced.